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Yoko Shimomura (下村 陽子 Shimomura Yōko, born October 19, 1967) is a Japanese video game composer. She has been described as “the most famous female video game music composer in the world”. She has worked in the video game industry ever since graduating from the Osaka College of Music in 1988. From then until 1993, she worked for Capcom, where she composed wholly or in part the scores for 16 games, including Final Fight and Street Fighter II.

While working for Capcom, Shimomura contributed to the soundtracks of over 16 games, including the successful Street Fighter II, which she composed all but three pieces for. The first soundtrack she worked on at the company was for Samurai Sword in 1988. Final Fight, in 1989, was her first work to receive a separate soundtrack album release, on an album of music from several Capcom games. The first soundtrack album to exclusively feature her work came a year later for the soundtrack to Street Fighter II. While she began her tenure at Capcom working on games for video game consoles, by 1990 she had moved to the arcade game division. She was a member of the company’s in-house band Alph Lyla, which played various Capcom game music, including pieces written by Shimomura. She performed live with the group on a few occasions, including playing piano during Alph Lyla’s appearance at the 1992 Game Music Festival.

...It's like she's taking over my life. Just now I was watching an episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd, in which he briefly showed a clip of (but did not name) a game, and its music caught my attention. After some Googling I finally found it (Adventures in The Magic Kingdom), checked its Wikipedia page, and BAM! Yoko listed as composer! I reiterate: love her!

Where The Wind and Feathers Return (from Radiant Historia) and Xenoblade Chronicles' main theme are my two favorite video game tracks right now.... and I had absolutely no idea they were composed by the same person until a few minutes ago. Love her!

She's without a doubt the only real replacement for Uematsu on Final Fantasy. I hope she sticks with the series after XV. It's so far shaping up to be the best soundtrack since IX. [2] lol, i don't even know, what i'm more waiting for - the game itself or OST :), can't wait! along with GG Xrd OST definitely most anticipated Videogame soundtracks for me)